Nell Watson

Tomáš Mikolov, Ph.D.

Research Scientist at Facebook, Tomas and his team at Google created famous Word2vec algorithm.

Adam Herout, Ph.D.

Mentor

Computer Vision and Machine Learning, Professor at Brno University of Technology

Aleš Horák, Ph.D.

Mentor

NLP, Masaryk University, Machine Learning – Department Head

Matěj Hoffmann, Ph.D.

Mentor

Matej's main research interest is in safe human-robot interaction and collaborative robotics. After having spent 10 years abroad - Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Zurich, and Italian Institute of Technology, he is coordinating a research team at Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, CTU Prague, focusing on humanoid and neurorobotics.

Ondřej Fiala

Jan Trmal, Ph.D.

Mentor

Jan has been involved in AI, NLP and speech technology research and development since 2004. After finishing his Ph.D., he has been working at the Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University.

Petr Svoboda, Ph.D.

Mentor

University teacher at the Czech Technical University in Prague and a researcher in the field of digital technologies with specialization in education. Application of new methods and forms of education using AI technologies.

Roman Cabálek

Mentor

Former General Manager at Microsoft Czech and Microsoft Business Strategy Manager, Central and Eastern Europe.

Jan Veselý

Mentor

IBM Smarter University Leader, Lean Startup and Lean Canvas

Justin Wady

Mentor

Human Resources, Managing Director, Zeebra Resource Solutions

Pavel Konecny

Mentor

CEO of Neuron soundware, AI Startup Experience

Garan Goodman

Mentor

Garan is an entrepreneur by heart and practice having invested privately and via VCs in over 40 startups including Foodora and Ebot7 he is passionate about mentoring the best young European founders and entrepreneurs.

Juraj Atlas

Radomil Štumpa

FinTech 20+ years on projects across all continents including CEO roles & consultancy, leadership & business strategy consultant, published author and founder of UNIVERSAL SPORTSMAN.

Josef Holý

Mentor

Josef Holy has been building digital products since the last century. He went through several startups and corporations, including one big pharma. He is mostly focusing on the UX of AI and AI alignment.

Jiří Jelínek

Health Coach

Holistic life coach, personal fitness trainer, massage therapist, and kinesiologist with over a decade of experience in the wellness industry

How We Are Different

We are different from a typical Accelerator. We understand that AI technology and ideas need time and a lot of support to grow into a real business. We also know startups come to us at varying stages of readiness, each with a unique set of challenges. This is why we focus on AI only and don’t support general startups. This is why we don’t offer cookie-cutter packages; instead, we tailor our help to the needs of each and every project. We expect that upon completing our incubation program, a startup will have at least a MVP, stable team, and established basic company functions. In other words, it will be ready to enter global markets.

Funding

Provide early stage financial backing (cash for first 12 months) based on quarterly milestones.

Credibility

We will help you to reach the best partners and customers.

Rapid prototyping and technology guidance

We will support your early stages of “idea and solution experimentation” with rapid prototyping, and arrange technology guidance from best professionals.

AI brain concentration

AI world conferences

We will facilitate your access to world class AI conferences like NIPS.

Business Consulting

We will help you to get professional services and support (marketing, legal, accounting, finance, recruitment).

Computational resources

We will give you access to cheaper resources from our partners (e.g. AWS, Google) as well as to our shared hardware.

Next financing round

We will help you to reach additional funding after incubation period.

Incubator Timeline

We are launched on 7th of September 2017 and want to select up to 3 projects for our pilot program to sign in Q4 2017. The main phase will start from April 2018 with an aim to incubate up to 30 startups. Application process is ongoing.

Incubator Partners

We are creating and maintaining a unique ecosystem of cooperating companies and institutions. We want to work closely with main Czech universities and collaborate with all companies and institutions sharing the same ideas we have – to empower Czech entrepreneurs.